That gives Congress the time that we need to continue our work on the annual appropriations bills. It is not a year long cr. Republicans do not want a year long cr. The reason We are operating under a year long CR for the first time in history for the Department of Defense. which is causing tremendous difficulties, is because the the then Majority Leader Senator Schumer refused to bring a single appropriations bill to the Senate floor in the last Congress despite the hard and bipartisan work of the Senate Appropriations Committee. (01:02–01:13)
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